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As far as I can make out, the cooked lettuce in both French and Viennese versions involve a compact lettuce such as Little Gem, being cut into halves or quarters and fried in those chunks. With diced onion in butter. In the French version this is with peas and in both diced bacon or similar can be included.some liquid is then added to braise for a few moments.

Seed snails quite successful but only tried with peas. Photos to follow. 


Like you, Juliev, it's so much a question of doing what I can when I can that moon phases don't at the moment get a look in. I like the idea of being more in tune with as many aspects of the natural world as possible though.

Have so far only located strips of bubble wrap from my wrapping material box - and sowed the first lettuces into shallow pots instead of seed snails. 

Well, let's put it like this.  I consult the sowing by the moon seed calendar, which makes sure that everything gets done, as the 4 types of veg come round in turn.  Later on when it gets busy, I also sow as and when and the calendar no longer gets consulted.  So my early sowings are all on the correct day, but later in the year much less so. 

There are also French traditional recipes with cooked lettuce. Lettuce soup and French style petits pois (peas with onions and lettuce). Never had either of them, clearly not from my corner of France, haha!

Hope you had fun with your seed parcel, Galina! I've always been intrigued by the moon phase growing. At the moment, my style is more "I've got a few hours available and it's not raining" but I hope to give it a proper go one day.

How are the seed snails going? I think we need to see some pictures

Never heard of cooked lettuce myself.  But yes, it is a thing,  as a quick google for recipes shows. Here is Viennese cooked salad.

https://www.ichkoche.at/wiener-kochsalat-rezept-3136

You have been very patient! I'm very pleased you get to enjoy browsing at last.

The Weiner Maidivi lettuce sounds fascinating.The German seed supplier suggests that in the Austrian tradition with which it's especially associated,the lettuce is cooked. Is this a well established tradition do you know, Galina or Vetivert?

Got my seed package home safely and had a first good peak.  I am overwhelmed.  Thank you everybody so much.  Look at these treasures.   

As it is a 'greens day', according to the moon calendar, lettuces will make the start of sowing for this year.  Rouge Grenoble has been on my wish list for a while as has Wiener Maidivi, which despite the name, is not an endive!  This is going to be a spectacular garden.  Everybody thank you so much.

Much sorting and entering into my databases for the rest of the day.   

That's my mistake. For some reason I was convinced that it's a climber and thought I'd grown it as a climber. I've recently realised that's not so and is just one of those quirks of memory, but I failed to remember that I needed to change it on the base! Now corrected.
Apologies to Garrett who had it correctly listed.

The bean Merveille de Piemont is listed as a climber in the airtable base, just double checking whether this is accurate? As a bean with the same name is commonly known as a dwarf.
Cheers

It will be interesting to see how we fared at the end of the season!

Congratulations on your lights, Garrett. For me, they rescue this time of year as I love watching early seedlings develop, and they make an early start much more possible.

I have made my first seed snail, not beautiful but hopefully functional! It's for early peas. I watched one video which showed that with peas there can be a problem with tendrils intertwining and making rolling out difficult. I left a collar with the aim of lessening that effect and hope to plant them out before they get too tall.  It will be interesting to see how the method compares with both guttering and module trays for pea sowing. I crammed 40 seeds into my snail as they were old seeds and probably would have patchy germination. I would usually sow 40 seeds into half of a 40 module seed tray (2 to a module) so the difference in space taken isn't huge. But all very interesting and the root development might well be a big plus.
Looking at my snail again I think the top elastic band might be too tight. I might well replace with some sticky tape.